linux-kernel - Re: crashblk: a block device crash emulator.

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Date:	Fri, 15 Jan 2016 15:09:52 -0500
From:	Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>
To:	Takashi HOSHINO <hoshino@...s.cybozu.co.jp>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
CC:	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-block@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: crashblk: a block device crash emulator.

On 01/15/2016 01:45 AM, Takashi HOSHINO wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> On 2016/01/15 4:44, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>> On Jan 13, 2016, at 6:50 PM, Takashi HOSHINO
>> <hoshino@...s.cybozu.co.jp> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm developing 'crashblk'.
>>> It is a memory block device driver to emulate crash, IO error,
>>> and various response time.
>>
>> Why not use/improve dm-flakey for this, rather than making yet another
>> device that does something similar?
>
> I did not know dm-flakey until your reply. Thank you.
>
> I read its documents and code a bit.
> The big purpose of two projects are the same, which is to test software
> on block devices with errors, but their functions are almost different.
>
> It may be nice idea to implement alternative implementation of crashblk
> on device-mapper version by someone.
> Currently I'm not familiar with device-mapper development, and I do not
> have any motivation with it.
>

There's also dm-log-writes which will log writes to an external journal 
to allow you to replay writes and verify the fs is consistent at all 
steps of operation.  Thanks,

Josef